Gary Kasparov — Why Don’t Our Candidates Sound Like This?

Gary Kasparov is challenging Putin for the presidency in Russia. He was on Bill Maher’s show, and Chris Matthews comment right after the interview is on the mark: Why do our candidates — even the ones we like — talk to us like we’re morons? And why do they act like such space aliens? Kasparov is courageous, idealistic and intellectually combative, and he doesn’t spend every second of this interview trying to get people to like him. But he DOES get the audience to like him simply by not being a horrible phony.

In America, even when they start out acting like some kind of version of an autonomous, thinking human being (McCain, Romney, Giuliani, Obama), they end up talking like Stepford Candidates. There’s a problem here.